Cornwall scored the first 11 goals of the game and held Saugerties without a goal until the third quarter in a 16-4 victory at Faller Field.

For the second consecutive season, and in just Cornwall's second season as a varsity program, the Green Dragons are Section 9 Class B champions.

"We were pretty excited about today's final," said Cornwall senior midfielder Brandon Fienco. "We came ready and tried to practice hard. Saugerties is also a great team and they put up a fight today, they really did."

Ryan Donovan, Cornwall's senior attack, scored eight goals and made one assist. He broke both the 100-point mark for this season and the 100-goal mark for his varsity career in the win.

Pat Havey and Kraig Sheetz scored two goals apiece. Fienco had one goal and four assists.

Saugerties (11-8), the No. 3 seed, received three goals from James Pedersen.

Cornwall (13-4) will play Section 1's Yorktown in the opening round of the state tournament 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lakeland High School.Yorktown has won four consecutive Section 1 Class B titles and owns 37 boys' lacrosse championships in total.

"We're mostly playing for pride," Fienco said. "It's a great opportunity to play a great organization like that. We're pretty excited about it."

Cornwall suffered back-to-back losses against Section 1 teams from Tappan Zee and Horace Greeley in mid-April, so the Green Dragons are well aware of the level of competition they'll face in the state tournament.

"I really enjoy playing Section 1 teams," Donovan said. "They really help us prepare for these kind of games. Those prepared us for another Section 1 team coming up in the state tournament on Wednesday. We're just going to try to play our best game. We know Yorktown is an historical program for lacrosse there."

wmontgomery@th-record.com

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